Trafficked into Wedlock

A Cambodian Wife in Rural China

By Yan Cong on April 19, 2017

When Buntha left Cambodia to marry a Chinese man, she did so for money, not for love.

Thirty-two years old at the time, and never married, she had few opportunities to earn money for her family in her village in Kampong Cham, Cambodia. The China she saw on TV was a wealthy country, so when a marriage broker, an older woman from her village, offered her a Chinese husband in rural Jiangxi, she thought she was signing up for a brighter future.

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Economy
Rural Life
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Marriage
Family
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Cambodia
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Southeast Asia

Michael Swaine

on April 18, 2017

Michael Swaine is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and one of the most prominent American analysts in Chinese security studies. Formerly a Senior Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation, Swaine is a specialist in Chinese defense and foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian international relations. He has authored and edited more than a dozen books and monographs and many journal articles and book chapters in these areas, directs several security-related projects with Chinese partners, and advises the U.S. government on Asian security issues. He received his doctorate in government from Harvard University.

China’s Korea Policy ‘in Tatters’ as Both North and South Defy Sanctions

on April 17, 2017

On Monday, South Korea announced that it would press ahead with the “swift deployment” of a U.S. missile defense system, despite vociferous Chinese opposition.

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